Current research

Ulrik Ekman is Associate Professor at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen. Ekman’s main research interests are in the fields of cybernetics and ICT, the network society, new media art, critical design and aesthetics, as well as recent cultural theory. He is currently the head of the Nordic research network “The Culture of Ubiquitous Information” with more than 150 participating researchers. Ekman is currently involved in the publication of Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture (Routledge, forthcoming 2015), a comprehensive anthology treating the question whether and how the development of network societies with a third wave of computing may have emerge another kind of technocultural complexity. Ekman’s publications include research articles and chapters such as “Of the Untouchability of Embodiment I: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Relational Architectures." C-Theory (2012), “Irreducible Vagueness: Augmented Worldmaking in Diller & Scofidio’s Blur Building.” Postmodern Culture 19.2, and “Of Transductive Speed – Stiegler.” Parallax 13.4. He is also the editor of Throughout: Art and Culture Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing (MIT Press, 2013).